asyn w/serial device pushing data

["Fong, Nia W." <niafong@slac.stanford.edu>]

Hi,

I'd like to use asynPortDriver to connect to a serial device that pushes data when triggered by a hardware pulse.

If I use SCAN=I/O Intr and the pollThread() example code below from a previous tech-talk thread will my record be triggered to read every time there is new data?  Does this code mean my driver is constantly polling the serial port at a POLL_DELAY?

I only need to read, so can I call pasynOctetSyncIO->readIt() instead?  

How will I know that the serial device has finished pushing it's data for that trigger?  Does asyn/pasynOctetSynIO->readIt() wait for the OutputEos in the serial buffer before returning the received message?  Or is asyn waiting to read sizeof(receiveMessage) characters?


> void myPortDriver::pollThread()
> {
>     while(1) {
>           status = pasynOctetSyncIO->writeRead(pasynUserHMS, sendMessage, numSend, 
>                                          receiveMessage, sizeof(receiveMessage), 
>                                          WRITE_READ_TIMEOUT, &numSent, responseLen, &eomReason);
>           sscanf(receiveMessage, "TEMP=%f,CURRENT=%f", &temperature, &current);
>           setDoubleParam(temperatureParam, temperature);
>           setDoubleParam(currentParam, current);
>           callParamCallbacks();
>           epicsThreadSleep(POLL_DELAY);
>     }
> }
> 


Thank you in advance for any suggestions or comments.

Nia